The last veteran of the great hate passes away. I'm sure that there was disappointment among the survivors that it was not the war to end all war. But it was the last war where the action itself was deemed to be a glorious and necessary adventure and it would be over by Christmas.
Started by the assassination of a relative no one, it was propelled forward by secret alliances and agreements, and the out dated concept of global colonization.
For the average soldier it was not the glorious thing that they thought it was. There was little movement on the fronts, they were forced to live in muddy disgusting trenches, charge into the ravenous jaws of machine guns and bayonets, or be poisoned in their own trenches. It was a minor war made major by the stupidity of monarchs and leaders.
Out of that war came the next generation engines of death, tanks, aviation, naval aviation, advanced artillery. We also saw the end of the ruling family in Russia and the rise of communism, we saw the start of the slow death of colonization, and put into effects the seeds of the second great hate.
Its astounding that this man lived to see the turn of the next century, and the world is worse off then the one he was born into.
RIP
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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